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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Business / Finance.

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Live now: The founder of The Muse answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on CNN and Fox, and contributes on career and entrepreneurship topics to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. She was recently listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media for the second year in a row and Inc.’s s 15 Women to Watch in Tech.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. I'm Eric Ries. You knew actually.